E-waste

E-WASTE

E-waste is a popular, informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their "useful life. " Computers, phones, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, and fax machines are common electronic products. Many of these products can be reused, refurbished, or recycled. Unfortunately, electronic discards is one of the fastest growing segments of our nation's waste stream. With the passage of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 , certain portions of the electronic waste stream are defined and the systems to recover and recycle them will be administratively regulated beyond the universal waste rules that now apply to material handling.

In 2007 March 05 United Nations Organization started a project called “solving the E-Waste problem” to Manage E-Waste. They said every year world produced   50 Million Tons of E-Waste. The USA discards 30 million computers each year and 100 million phones are disposed of in Europe each year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 15-20% of e-waste is recycled, the rest of these electronics go directly into landfills and incinerators. According to a report by UNEP titled, "Recycling - from E-Waste to Resources," the amount of e-waste being produced - including mobile phones and computers - could rise by as much as 500 percent over the next decade in some countries, such as India.

Today the electronic waste recycling business is in all areas of the developed world a large and rapidly consolidating business. Part of this evolution has involved greater diversion of electronic waste from energy-intensive downcycling processes (e.g., conventional recycling), where equipment is reverted to a raw material form. This diversion is achieved through reuse and refurbishing. Recycling raw materials from end-of-life electronics is the most effective solution to the growing e-waste problem. Most electronic devices contain a variety of materials, including metals that can be recovered for future uses. By dismantling and providing reuse possibilities, intact natural resources are conserved and air and water pollution caused by hazardous disposal is avoided. Additionally, recycling reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the manufacturing of new products. It simply makes good sense and is efficient to recycle and to do our part to keep the environment green.

(sours Wikipedia )

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Birding

BIRDING

What Is Birding?

                  Birding, or bird watching, is the recreational hobby of observing species of wild birds, including their physical characteristics and behavior. In reality, birding is much more than a simple hobby and there are many benefits of birding that can be enjoyed by both novice and experienced birders. 

           Bird watching is a fun activity for the whole family. The basic hobby is spotting birds in your area, identifying the species, becoming familiar with their call, observing their activity. There are millions more throughout the world, making it one of the most popular and most rapidly growing hobbies in the world. Because birding is easy for all ages to enjoy, it is a popular family activity that can lead to a lifelong hobby.

Is Birding Educational?

                  Yes, As birders observe new species, they not only learn about different birds, but they also learn about migration, bird behavior, feed preferences, courtship and bird territories. Dedicated birders who want to attract more birds often study landscaping and geography as well. The practice of photographing birds can lead to a study of photography, while frequent use of field guides makes birders experts in detailed observation and species comparison.

                  Tools for starting a bird watching hobby are minimal. You will need:

Ø  A good field guide

Ø   A good set of binoculars

Ø   A journal or diary

Ø   A zoom camera

Ø   A voice recorder

Benefits of birding

1.      Birding is a hobby that works well with other pastimes.

2.      Birding is great exercise for all fitness levels. Observing many different species of birds may require long hikes and walks over uneven.

3.      Birding Is Environmentally Friendly, because birding is primarily observation, it has a very low impact on the local environment.

4.      All it takes to get started as a birder is good eyesight, a simple field guid and an interest in watching birds.

5.      Can be very challenging to identify, and many birders feel a rush of adrenaline when they manage to add a new species to their life list.

6.      For an enthusiastic birder, nothing is more exciting than spotting a new or rare bird, or learning to distinguish individual birds through their personalities. So its fun.

 Here are some Bird Pictures

Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), Tuli Block, Botswana

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) close-up showing its brightly-colored head and neck, Kruge

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) perched on tree stump in early morning light, Kruger Natio

Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) perched on a tree stump with river in background, Kruger Na

Lesser Masked Weaver (Ploceus intermedius) sitting on branch of acacia tree, Kruger National Park

Lilacbreasted Roller (Coracias caudata), Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) building nest, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

bee-eater

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EduEnT BLOG: Want to increase facebook likes?

EduEnT BLOG: Want to increase facebook likes?

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Want to increase facebook likes?

Want to Increase Facebook Likes on Your Fanpage?

  There are plenty of ways to increase your facebook likes with paying some money. But do they work at all……… well, here are some tips to increase your FB likes.

 

1.       The quickest way to grow your fan base is advertising on Facebook.

2.       Rotate your ads “DAILY” people get tired of hearing the same thing in conversation so change your ad!  

3.       Include a link to your Facebook page in your email signature.

4.       Post content from your blog to Facebook whenever you write a new post. Facebook users love receiving new content on Facebook without having to go looking for your blog.

5.       Compelling photos that are appropriate for your target audience will keep them coming back and make them share.

6.       Free exclusive video that can only be viewed if you like the page.

7.       Initially ask friends and family to like your page.

8.       Make it obvious on a custom landing page by providing a big bold “Like our Page”.

9.       Ask questions regularly using Facebook’s native question app.

10.   Run a competition. Everyone likes a competition.

What are the Advantages of increasing facebook likes?

            Increasing Facebook Like is also increasing your network. Just having thousands of friends or thousands more from your fan page is very viral. The more likes you get, the more people will be in your network.More people means more audience. Now if you are selling something, this means more potential customers for you.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

    Saint Valentine's Day, often simply Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. It is celebrated in hundreds of countries around the world, mostly in the West, although it remains a working day in all of them.

The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").

Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni . Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome, and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.

Valentine of Terni became bishop of modern Terni about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14. The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Second Vatican Council calendar. February 14 is also celebrated as St Valentine's Day in other Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of 'commemoration' in the calendar of the Church of England and other parts of the Anglican Communion.

In 1797, a British publisher issued The Young Man's Valentine Writer, which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing a limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called "mechanical valentines," and a reduction in postal rates in the next century ushered in the less personal but easier practice of mailing Valentines. That, in turn, made it possible for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian.

Paper Valentines became so popular in England in the early 19th century that they were assembled in factories. Fancy Valentines were made with real lace and ribbons, with paper lace introduced in the mid-19th century. In the UK, just under half of the population spend money on their Valentines and around 1.3 billion pounds are spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards being sent. The reinvention of Saint Valentine's Day in the 1840s has been traced by Leigh Eric Schmidt. As a writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday." In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828–1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts.

*The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer wrote:

   “For this was on seynt Volantynys day
     Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.”

["For this was Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]

    *”To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,          
       All in the morning betime,
        And I a maid at your window,
        To be your Valentine.
      Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
     And dupp'd the chamber-door;
      Let in the maid, that out a maid
     Never departed more.”

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

      *”The rose is red, the violet's blue,
         The honey's sweet, and so are you.
          Thou art my love and I am thine;
           I drew thee to my Valentine:
        The lot was cast and then I drew,
       And Fortune said it shou'd be you.”

(sources-Wikipedia)

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Adolf Dassler

Adolf Dassler

            Christoph von Wilhelm Dassler was a worker in a shoe factory, while his wife Pauline ran a small laundry in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, 20 km from the city of Nuremberg. After leaving school, their son, Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler,joined his father at the shoe factory. When he returned from fighting in World War I, Rudolf received a management position at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather wholesale business in Nuremberg.

                 Adolf “Adi” Dassler started to produce his own sports shoes in his mother's wash kitchen in Herzogenaurach Bavaria after his return from World War I. In July 1924, his brother Rudolf returned to Herzogenaurach to join his younger brother's business, which became Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory and prospered. The pair started the venture in their mother's laundry but, at the time, electricity supplies in the town were unreliable, and the brothers sometimes had to use pedal power from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment.

At the 1928 Olympics Dassler equipped many athletes, laying the foundation for the international expansion of the company. During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin Dassler equipped Jesse Owens of the USA with his shoes. Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in the year he wore Adi's shoes.

With the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, both Dassler brothers joined the Nazi party, with Rudolf reputed as being the more ardent National Socialist Rudolf was drafted, and later captured, while Adi stayed behind to produce boots for the Wehrmacht. The war exacerbated the differences between the brothers and their wives. Rudolf, upon his capture by American troops, was suspected of being a member of the SS, information supposedly supplied by none other than his brother Adi.

By 1948, the rift between the brothers widened. Rudolf left the company to found Puma on the other side of town and Adolf Dassler renamed the company Adidas after his own nickname (Adi Dassler).

In 1973, Adolf Dassler's son Horst Dassler founded Arena, a producer of swimming equipment. After Adolf Dassler's death in 1978, Horst and his wife Käthe took over the management. Horst died nine years later, in 1987. Adidas was transformed into a private limited company 1989, but remained family property until its IPO in 1995.

Football (soccer)

One of the main focuses of Adidas is football kit and associated equipment. Adidas remain a major company in the supply of team kits for international football teams.
Adidas also makes referee kits that are used in international competition and by many countries and leagues in the world. The company has been an innovator in the area of footwear for the sport, with notable examples including the 1979 release of the Copa Mundial moulded boot used for matches on firm dry pitches. It holds the accolade of the best selling boot of all time. The soft-ground equivalent was named World Cup and it too remains on the market, timeless and iconic. Some of the most famous football teams are currently sponsored by Adidas.
About Adidas

1.Industry   - Clothing and consumer goods manufacture

2.Founded  - 1924 as Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory (registered in 1949)

3.Founder(s)  - Adolf Dassler

4.Headquarters -  Herzogenaurach, Germany

5.Area served    - Worldwide

6.Products         - Footwear, sportswear, sports equipment, toiletries

(sourses-wikipedia,Magazins)

                                                                        

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